Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these six departments had two or three clerks or junior clerks to assist them in the work . |
| 2 | The social scientist must conduct a fair and balanced enquiry , not allowing personal or political values to affect what is discovered and reported . |
| 3 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 4 | I think the reason a lot of guitarists go out and buy traditional Fender or Gibson-like designs has nothing to do with single coil versus humbuckers , vintage trem systems or control layout ; they simply hope that some of their guitar hero 's ‘ mojo magic ’ will rub off on them ! |
| 5 | Where hierarchical relations exist they are represented by redundancy rules , e.g. if a word meaning has the feature HUMAN , then it also has the feature ANIMATE . |
| 6 | Many voluntary organisations depend heavily on those with technical , secretarial , accountancy , fund-raising , carpentry , building or professional skills giving their advice free of charge . |
| 7 | ‘ No one can conceive of a revolutionary party saying that it will let enterprises or economic sectors manage themselves , ’ he says . |
| 8 | In the past that same tract was often the corridor along which migrating peoples or invading armies found their route . |
| 9 | The morning room was for comings and goings , where odd chairs changed their places for different conveniences , and shoes and boots from the fields were not forbidden . |
| 10 | The idea of people with telekinetic or telepathic powers frightens me a little . |
| 11 | Tempo runs or low-key races increase your anaerobic threshold and give you experience running at race pace . |
| 12 | There are no absolutely right or wrong ways to apply it , only good or bad practices . |
| 13 | It is very interesting to note that many people who have been unable to eat cheese because of headaches , migraines or digestive problems following its consumption are able to eat organically produced cheeses with no side effects . |
| 14 | She had often thought of it herself , had once or twice in low or high moments suggested it . |
| 15 | A similar concession will operate where the payment made by the discretionary trustees is not within TA 1988 s.687(2) , but constitutes income arising from a foreign possession ( eg where non-resident trustees exercise their discretion outside the UK ) provided the trustees ( a ) submit trust returns , supported by the relevant income tax certificates , which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries ; and ( b ) pay the additional rate tax chargeable on the UK income of the trust in accordance with TA 1988 s.686 . |
| 16 | One of the most popular activities was the rifle range , where would-be soldiers got their first opportunity to fire real guns . |
| 17 | More practically , it is probably one reason why the E. coli of distant lands , where different diets provide it with significantly distinct primary habitats , are apt to give the intrepid traveller diarrhoea . |
| 18 | This condition is met wherever there is value in people being able to express themselves in the way they choose , at least where acceptable alternatives present themselves . |
| 19 | Linked to this persistent emphasis on the head of state as a quasi-mystical individual has been a countervailing disregard for the opinions and practices of village communities , except as the means of export revenue and , where tribal links justify it , as a source of political support . |
| 20 | This is one instance where public managers have something to teach their private sector colleagues , who might benefit from the traditional training of public administrators in policy analysis and political science ( Chandler 1992 ) . |
| 21 | Indeed , far from being merely analogous with the Neolithic situation , we have an exact historical recapitulation because , as we saw , the primal mother , lost on earth , phantasied in heaven , soon achieved a genuine reincarnation in the welfare state divine monarchies , where absolute monarchs tempered their tyranny with protection and sustenance of their citizens through their monopolization of the economic surplus and the means of coercive power . |
| 22 | It has given my mother a complete raison d'être , since she was n't of the generation that had careers or outside interests to involve themselves in . |
| 23 | Urry 's ( 1981 ) discussion of The Anatomy of Capitalist Societies similarly uses a threefold schema — of economy , civil society and state : economy covers the sphere of production , wherein material needs are met ; civil society ‘ is that site where individual subjects reproduce their material conditions of life ’ ( p. 6 ) ; and the state is that apparatus which , as Clark and Dear ( 1984 ) argue , concurrently sustains the sphere of production , by promoting accumulation strategies in a capitalist society , regulates the sphere of consumption in civil society , and , through the propagation of an ideology , welds the two in a social consensus . |
| 24 | Most exciting is creation of a ‘ Bose-Einstein ’ condensate — a weird state of matter , predicted by Einstein and the Indian physicist Satyendranath Bose , where individual atoms lose their identity and merge into a kind of atomic soup . |
| 25 | 1989:126 ) and many councils had established race relations units or similar structures to implement their policies for equal opportunities . |
| 26 | The UK is also highly unattractive as a place for US or Japanese corporations to site their European holding companies . |
| 27 | And that , by and large , is what tests have done , enabling millions of people from poor or deprived backgrounds to develop their abilities better than the circumstances of birth would otherwise have allowed . |
| 28 | To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic . |
| 29 | Only friendly or subordinate cats cover them up . |
| 30 | ( pl. 33 ) Feature either human figures ( usually on horseback ) engaged in a formal hunt , or predatory animals pursuing their prey amidst a fecund undergrowth of foliate forms . |